xl, 2960 pages, 56 pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Major authors Anthology of English literature
Notes:
Previously published in two volumes in 2012 Maps on lining pages Includes bibliographical references (pages A3-A9) and index
Contents:
The Middle Ages (to circa 1485). Anglo-Saxon literature: Bede (ca. 673-735) and Cædmon's hymn ; The dream of the rood ; Beowulf / translation by Seamus Heaney ; The wanderer ; The wife's lament Irish literature: Cúchulainn's boyhood deeds ; Early Irish lyrics Anglo-Norman literature: Romance: Marie de France Middle English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375-1400) ; Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400) The Canterbury tales ; Christ's humanity: Julian of Norwich ; Margery Kempe ; Mystery plays ; Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405-1471) Morte DArthur ; The Sixteenth century (1485-1603). Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542) ; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) The English bible ; Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ; Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) ; Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) ; Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) ; Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1562-1621) ; Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) ; Williams Shakespeare (1564-1616) The early Seventeenth century. John Donne ; Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) ; Ben Jonson (1572-1637) ; Mary Wroth (1587-1651?) ; Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) ; George Herbert (1593-1633) ; Robert Herrick (1591-1674) ; Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) Katherine Philips (1632-1664) ; Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) ; Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) ; John Milton (1608-1674) The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1785). John Dryden (1631-1700) John Wilmot, Second Earl of the Rochester (1647-1680) ; Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) ; Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ; Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) ; William Hogarth (1697-1764) ; Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) ; James Boswell (1740-1795) ; Frances Burney (1752-1840) ; Olaudah Equiano (circa 1745-1797) ; Thomas Gray (1716-1771) ; William Collins (1721-1759) ; Christopher Smart (1722-1771) ; William Cowper (1731-1800) The romantic period (1785-1832). Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) ; Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) ; William Blake (1757-1827) ; Robert Burns (1759-1796) ; Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ; Williams Wordsworth (1770-1850) ; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ; George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ; Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ; John Clare (1793-1864) ; Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) ; John Keats (1795-1821) The Victorian Age (1830-1901). Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) ; Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) ; Robert Browning (1812-1889) ; Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) ; Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) ; Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) ; Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) ; Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) The twentieth century and after. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) ; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ; William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ; Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ; James Joyce (1882-1941) ; D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) ; T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) ; Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) ; Jean Rhys (1890-1979) Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) ; W.H. Auden (1907-1973) ; Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) ; Philip Larkin (1922-1985) ; Nadine Gordimer (born 1923) ; Derek Walcott (born 1930) ; Chinua Achebe (born 1930) ; Alice Munro (born 1931) ; Seamus Heaney (born 1939) ; Margaret Atwood (born 1939) ; J.M. Coetzee (born 1940) ; Salman Rushdie (born 1947) ; Ian McEwan (born 1948) ; Zadie Smith (born 1975)
